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wyoming catholic.edu. We have with us today Anna Virs Bicca. She is Professor Emerita at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her books include, What Did Jesus Mean?

Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the parables in simple universal

concepts and imprisoned in English, the hazards of English as a default language? She has a new

book out called What Christians Believe with Oxford Press. The subtitle is The Story of God

and People in Minimal English.

Welcome, Professor Rearsbeka.

Thank you, Magh. Thank you very much for inviting me.

Well, first, just a definition. What is, quote, minimal English?

What do you mean by that?

Well, what we call minimal English colleagues and mine

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